# Importing Tag Data without Deleting Current Tags

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-tag-data-without-deleting-current-tags/12295
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 19, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-tag-data-without-deleting-current-tags/12295 "2011-07-19T12:35:41Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-tag-data-without-deleting-current-tags/12295/2 "2011-07-19T16:19:32Z")

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> [@Beluna](#):
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> I'm trying to update the Composer tag for my MP3's.

If you want to preserve the date from particular fields you could copy it to other fields (that you do not use) and move them back again.  
You could even copy the data to user-defined fields.  
see the FAQs  
[/t/967/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1)  
on how to copy the contents of fields.

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